Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York's Senator Jacob Javits cautioned that he would resist cur tailment of education, welfare and antipoverty programs...
...fundamental approach to China. The U.S. should shift, Barnett suggested, from "containment plus isolation of Peking to containment without isolation," working simultaneously to block Chinese expansionism-as in Viet Nam-and to bring the Chinese into the international community, particularly the United Nations. Peking-like any psychotic patient-would resist therapy with every obnoxious means at its disposal. Nonetheless, said Barnett, "initiatives on our part are clearly required if we are to work, however slowly, toward the long-term goal of a more stable, less explosive situation in Asia." The Communists, added Fairbank succinctly, should be brought into...
Since it is a considerably more natural instinct, at least for politicians in an election year, to resist cuts in domestic spending, Shriver will doubtless get his $1.75 billion. As Democratic Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida observed, "We used to say we don't want any of that tainted federal money. Now we say 'tain't enough...
...stake. By now it is hardly possible to doubt that the voters will have to choose between the two--presuming that they remain in good health, etc. Humphrey will certainly be running hard, and there will be too many people pushing Kennedy forward for the Senator to resist, if he cared...
Departments often argue--and with some justification--that they do not have sufficient resources to meet the demands of the special programs. But the policy of resistance is often deliberate: departments resent the ability of these interdepartmental programs to lure honors students, and resist their attempts to attract more staff...